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WHY MAHARAJ ABANDONED RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL VERSIONS OF THE ULTIMATE MEDICINE AND TURNED HIS FOCUS TO PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALING INSTEAD
THE VOCABULARY OF REALIZATION
A VISITOR TO THIS SITE: “What does it matter if I use the term 'God' as long as I know it refers to Brahma or even Brahman?”
ANOTHER: “You mentioned in an e-mail to my friend a vocabulary of realization and a non-dual-style of vocabulary based in sanity and clear perspective. Explain, please.”
Maharaj shared pointers in regards to the use of certain words and language, touting exactness in word choice even as he endorsed silence over talk.
[As the silence
becomes the typical marker among the realized, there are fewer and fewer words
used at all, but the ones used never support any “notions of two-ness” and
always support the “not-two” understanding instead.]
For instance, when the realized use the word “I,” that word has nothing at all
to do with the first person, singular, nominative case, personal pronoun.
Furthermore, no “fully realized non-dualist would make any claim about being
either “fully realized” or being “a non-dualist.” That is all
“early-on-the-‘path’” talk, and some latitude is required in order for any
communication to take place between seeker and teacher during the early stages.
[Later, it is even realized that there are neither seekers nor teachers.]
Exceptions can especially be the case when dealing with those in the West who
have very little exposure to even the most basic terminology required for the
transmission of the teachings, including words and phrases such as “false
self,” “the Absolute as opposed to the relative,” “de-accumulation,” etc., all
of which are alien to those programmed in cultures of accumulation. To even
speak to them of "a false self" or of "de-accumulation" is
typically greeted with all the enthusiasm surrounding a case of influenza.
Yet even among Easterners, many misunderstand the most basic teachings. Maharaj
said to one seeker, “We are not speaking the same language. Yours is a
make-believe talk . . . .” He informed one seeker, “You speak as a person,
limited in time and space, reduced to the contents of a body and a mind.”
Because thoughts (the content of the mind) control words and because words—in turn—control deeds, then the words used during the relative existence exert tremendous influence over behavior among non-realized persons.
For example, some regular visitors to this site are familiar with the case of certain racist men who resided in Jasper, Texas in the late 1990's. They were members of a white supremacist group, all of whom had the thought that they were better than non-whites. They often verbalized their belief, speaking words of hatred and arrogance.
Eventually, their deed followed: three of those men would kidnap a black man, Richard Byrd, Jr., and would take him to an isolated area nearby. There, they beat him, chained him to a pickup truck, and dragged him behind the vehicle for two miles. In the process of killing him in that manner, they tore off his head, his neck and his right arm.
THEIR THOUGHT: Whites are better than blacks.
THEIR WORDS: “We are better than black people. They are inferior to us.”
THE RESULT / THEIR DEED: The murder of a black man.
All deeds are directly preceded by words, and all words are preceded by thoughts. Is it no wonder that Maharaj cautioned against the careless use of language? Yet do not conclude that 50% of all actions result from thoughts and 50% from words.
Nonsensical talk could not happen were it not for the nonsense stored in “the mind” that is constantly cycled and recycled among the non-Realized as thought after thought after thought.
That is why one of the books available here is entitled THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS “PEACE OF MIND” (There is Only Peace If You’re Out of Your Mind).
The part of the title THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS “PEACE OF MIND” comes from Maharaj; the rest comes from here.
Additionally, there is no need to cut off the tongue and lips and discard them in order to put an end to the nonsense being verbalized millions of times per day across the planet. The requirement is to cut out the nonsensical thinking by discarding the contents of “the mind.”
When nonsense is eliminated at the source (called “the mind”) then it cannot manifest via the mouth.
If there is no constant running of the mind, then there can be no constant running of the mouth. Is it becoming clear why the realized spend so much time in the silence?
Is it clear that those who have to talk the most are the most removed from reality / Reality? Is it clear why the truth can be known but cannot be spoken? Is it clear, therefore, why most of what is spoken is to be ignored because it is false?
For nonsensical words and deeds to end, persons must be rid of belief in the concepts and ideas that generate the thinking which leads to nonsensical talking and nonsensical behaviors.
Yet in cultures where “freedom of speech” is endorsed over freedom of silence—such as in the U.S.—then talking flourishes, talk radio flourishes, talk shows on television flourish. And they all add to the already-widespread dissemination of nonsense across the globe.
In the “war on nonsense,” one suggestion to those taking the seven steps to realization is this: simultaneously become consciousness of the words that are spoken while sleepwalking and while trying to awake.
By that means, there can be launched a two-fold assault on babble and claptrap—attacking the base of nonsense (“the mind”) as well as the nonsense being spoken by persons who are out on patrol each day and spreading foolishness in a verbal fashion as they go.
One student of the teachings offered by Maharaj was named Ruiz. He chose to focus on only a few aspects of the teachings in particular (the case with so many currently on the circuit who also studied the pointers offered by Maharaj and then selected a few as their own and are now marketing a narrow, limited, and incomplete version of the teachings).
One of the teachings that Ruiz focuses on is the suggestion to practice impeccability in word choice. There is what might be termed “A Vocabulary of Realization,” which is in one sense an “exclusive” vocabulary rather than an all-inclusive vocabulary. It is a vocabulary this is limited to the use of non-dualistic words and terms.
The so-called “fully realized non-dualist,” for example, will not speak of something being “good” or being “bad”; nor will there be talk of one thing or person being “better than another”; nor will there be any speaking about “ownership,” about “gain or loss,” or about “possessions” as implied with terms such as “my wife” or “my husband.”
[Exceptions can happen when communicating with a seeker not yet fully realized and not yet familiar with The Vocabulary of Realization, but in the end, all will be made clear if the seeker travels the entire “path” with the teacher.]
In that regard, there is no difference in using the dualistic term “good” and in using the term raised in the first e-mail above that evolved from the word “good,” specifically, “god.” In Anglo-Saxon, the word for “good” was “gud” or “gad.”
At best, the word “God” with an uppercase “G” might point toward some “divine goodness”; however, if you adhere to the Advaita teachings, you will not speak of any dualities including “divine vs. earthly” or “good vs. bad.”
If you move beyond the Germanic root of the word god” and study the Indo-European root, you will find a Far Eastern (Sanskrit) origin dealing with “the invoked one.” To the writer of the first e-mail above, therefore, if you want to “invoke,” invoke away by speaking of “God.” If you want to speak in dualities, speak away of “God,” even as you claim your talk of "two-ness" is really "not-two" talk.
For the rest of the specks of consciousness that speak with "impeccability," the word “God” is not in the vocabulary of those currently manifested specks.
In other series an additional nonsensical practice is addressed, namely, the practice of invoking “God” throughout the day and the practice of advising people in crisis to “turn it over to God.”
The relationship of the above to the key question now being addressed is this: “Why did Maharaj abandon religious and spiritual versions of the Ultimate Medicine and turn his focus to psychological healing instead?”
He came to understand that seekers who would realize must turn away from all sources of ignorance. Moreover, he realized that they must also turn away from membership in all institutions and organizations and groups which inspire the belief among their membership that that they are “different from others” and that their differences make them “better than others.”
He also came to understand that seekers who would realize must avoid joining any institutions and organizations and groups which teach their members that they are “better than they would be otherwise if they were not members of those institutions or organizations or groups."
And he further came to understand that seekers must avoid joining any and all institutions and organizations and groups which generate and normalize division and separation.
Despite religious talk about “unity and love and oneness” aside, were that truly their hallmark then how could the current 4,300 religions now exist? And despite religious talk about “unity and love and oneness” aside, were that truly their hallmark then how could the current 45,000 denominations and sects now exist?
The facts show that their hallmark is about dividing and separating, about conflict, about discord, about disagreement, about partitioning; about splitting up, about disconnection, about detachment, about estrangement, about segregation, ad infinitum.
The realized see the folly behind such concepts. Yesterday’s discussion showed how much of the content of various bodies of dogma is nonsensical.
But Maharaj
came to see that institutions and organizations and groups share the common
agenda of inspiring division and a sense of “better-than-ment,” be they organized
religions, cults, ideologies, the KKK, the Proud Boys, so-called “spiritual groups”
with members who brag about being “spiritual and not religious!” or be they
white nationalists, Nazis, neo-Nazis, neo-Confederates, skinheads, ad infinitum. Hence the recent posting
on “Religious-based insanity” which applies to all of those other groups as well.
The attitudes and philosophies and beliefs of those who are members of institutions and organizations and groups with so-called “good reputations” differ very little from the attitudes and philosophies and beliefs of those who are members of institutions and organizations and groups with so-called “bad reputations.”
Maharaj came to understand that as well; thus, he advised his visitors to stay away not only from those pushing dogma and / or spirituality but also from those pushing so-called “non-dual teachings” and who are now known as non-duality’s “Big Name Teachers.”
Maharaj refused an offer from a man to build “the biggest and best ashram in the world” for Maharaj, but Maharaj refused the offer, choosing to stay in a loft above his flat where he could meet privately with 20 or so seekers at a time.
He made clear that non-dual pointers are not suited for big television audiences or for big crowds in large venues or for big audiences gathered in rooms with the seating capacity of an oversized “church sanctuary.”
In the end, Maharaj offered multiple, logical reasons regarding why persons should focus on the mental / mind aspects of the Ultimate Sickness rather than on a so-called body of dogma or on an imaginary “spiritual malady.”
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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THE EXPLANATION
Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:
"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
